1006G备考日记 by miki7cat-Never quit, keep up with it.

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加油！呵。。:hug:

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好详细的note，学习学习~
新年快乐呀！

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谢谢各位的督促，感激涕零~~~
我真的是老了，通宵了一下，结果昨天一整天都处在昏迷状态，今天才缓过来点儿。
赶快补作业

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.31]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1046873-1-1.html


Comment

The beauty of nature always makes us being astonished, either the natural landscape or the laws of nature we find. We could not help admiring:"Wow! Wonderful!" I love the last paragraph that expresses the affinity between beauty and us, especially the profound goal: to close the circuit of Creation. For the Creation puts on a nonstop show, beauty is free and inexhaustible, but we need training in order to perceive more than the most obvious kinds, in other words, the beautiful theories that nature should conform to. The metaphor in the forth paragraph is very appropriate, which described the process of studying mathematics referring to scrambling up a mountain. The higher we reach, the more beauty we get. Not only sciences such as mathematics, physics, biology, but our usage of language should also be trained well in order to record the beauty we perceive.


好词好句的标注

Judging from the scientists I know, including Eva and Ruth, and those whom I've read about, you can't pursue the laws of nature very long without bumping into【If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.】 beauty. "I don't know if it's the same beauty you see in the sunset," a friend tells me, "but it feels the same." This friend is a physicist, who has spent a long career deciphering what must be happening in the interior of stars. He recalls for me his thrill on grasping for the first time Dirac's equations describing quantum mechanics, or those of Einstein describing relativity. "They're so beautiful," he says, "you can see immediately they have to be true. Or at least on the way toward truth." I ask him what makes a theory beautiful, and he replies, "Simplicity, symmetry, elegance, and power."

Why nature should conform to【If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.】 theories we find beautiful is far from obvious. The most incomprehensible thing about the universe, as Einstein said, is that it's comprehensible. How unlikely, that a short-lived biped on a two-bit【You use two-bit to describe someone or something that you have no respect for or that you think is inferior. (AM INFORMAL)】 planet should be able to gauge the speed of light, lay bare the structure of an atom, or calculate the gravitational tug of a black hole. We're a long way from understanding everything, but we do understand a great deal about how nature behaves. Generation after generation, we puzzle out formulas, test them, and find, to an astonishing degree, that nature agrees. An architect draws designs on flimsy paper, and her buildings stand up through earthquakes. We launch a satellite into orbit and use it to bounce messages from continent to continent. The machine on which I write these words embodies hundreds of insights into the workings of the material world, insights that are confirmed by every burst of letters on the screen, and I stare at that screen through lenses that obey the laws of optics first worked out in detail by Isaac Newton.

By discerning patterns in the universe, Newton believed, he was tracing the hand of God. Scientists in our day have largely abandoned the notion of a Creator as an unnecessary hypothesis, or at least an untestable one. While they share Newton's faith that the universe is ruled everywhere by a coherent set of rules, they cannot say, as scientists, how these particular rules came to govern things. You can do science without believing in a divine Legislator, but not without believing in laws.

I spent my teenage years scrambling up the mountain of mathematics. Midway up the slope, however, I staggered to a halt, gasping in the rarefied air, well before I reached the heights where the equations of Einstein and Dirac would have made sense. Nowadays I add, subtract, multiply, and do long division when no calculator is handy, and I can do algebra and geometry and even trigonometry in a pinch【If you say that something is possible at a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possible in a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.】, but that is about all that I've kept from the language of numbers. Still, I remember glimpsing patterns in mathematics that seemed as bold and beautiful as a skyful of stars.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][12.30]https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1046796-1-1.html


U.S. Had Early Signals of a Terror Plot, Officials Say

President Obama declared Tuesday that there had been a “systemic failure” of the nation’s security apparatus after being told about more missed signals and uncorrelated intelligence that should have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a flight for the United States.

The president was told during a private briefing on Tuesday morning while vacationing here in Hawaii that the government had a variety of information in its possession before the thwarted bombing that would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among agencies, a senior official said.

Two officials said the government had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack. While the information did not include a name, officials said it would have been evident had it been compared with information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.

The government also had more information about where Mr. Abdulmutallab had been and what some of his plans were.

Some of the information was partial or incomplete, and it was not obvious that it was connected, the official said, but in retrospect it now appears clear that had it all been examined together it would have pointed to the pending attack. The official said the administration was “increasingly confident” that Al Qaeda had a role in the attack, as the group’s Yemeni branch has publicly claimed.

Shortly after being briefed, Mr. Obama addressed reporters in his second public statement on the matter in two days, announcing that a review already had revealed a breakdown in the intelligence system that did not properly identify the suspect as a dangerous extremist who should have been prevented from flying to the United States.

“A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable,” Mr. Obama said. He said he had ordered government agencies to give him a preliminary report on Thursday about what happened and added that he would “insist on accountability at every level,” although he did not elaborate.

Mr. Obama alluded to【If you allude to something, you mention it in an indirect way. (FORMAL)】the intelligence in his statement. “Had this critical information been shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged,” the president said. “The warning signs would have triggered red flags, and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America.”

The president’s withering【A withering look or remark is very critical, and is intended to make someone feel ashamed or stupid.】 assessment of the government’s performance could reshape the intensifying political debate over the thwarted terrorist attack. Instead of defending the system, Mr. Obama sided with critics who complained that it did not work and positioned himself as a reformer who will fix it. At the same time, the decision to speak a second time after remaining out of sight【看不见，在视野之外】 for three days underscores【If something such as an action or an event underscores another, it draws attention to the other thing and emphasizes its importance. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use underline)】 the administration’s concern over being outflanked【If you outflank someone, you succeed in getting into a position where you can defeat them, for example in an argument.】
on national security.

The aftermath of【The aftermath of an important event, especially a harmful one, is the situation that results from it.】 the attempted bombing has been marked by an increasingly fierce partisan exchange【An exchange is a brief conversation, usually an angry one.】 over culpability heading into a midterm election year. With Republicans on the attack against the administration as not taking terrorism seriously enough, Democrats returned fire by accusing the opposition of 【accuse sb. of sth.】standing in the way of needed personnel and money while exploiting public fears.

The debate has escalated【升级】 since Mr. Obama’s secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Sunday that “the system worked” after officials said the suspect tried to ignite explosive chemicals aboard a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit. Ms. Napolitano made clear the next day that she had meant the system worked in its response to the attempted bombing, not before it happened.

Mr. Obama appeared to be trying to contain the damage on Tuesday, offering “systemic failure” as a substitute diagnosis for “system worked.” He framed Ms. Napolitano’s statement by saying she was right that “once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253, after his attempt, it’s clear that passengers and crew, our homeland security systems and our aviation security took all appropriate actions.”

The president praised the professionalism of the nation’s intelligence, counterterrorism, homeland security and law enforcement officials. But he spared little in his sharp judgment about how a known extremist could be allowed to board a flight bound for the United States after his own father had warned that he had become radical.

“There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic【Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.】 breach of security,” Mr. Obama told reporters at the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay outside Honolulu, near his vacation home in Kailua. “We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system because our security is at stake and lives are at stake.”

Mr. Obama suggested that he would overhaul the watch-list system【黑名单系统】. “We’ve achieved much since 9/11 in terms of collecting information that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks,” he said. “But it’s becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have.”

Mr. Abdulmutallab, who has been linked to the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda, came to the attention of the American authorities when his father went to the embassy last month to report that his son had expressed radical【激进的】 views before disappearing. The father, a respected retired banker, did not say his son planned to attack Americans but sought help locating him and bringing him home, United States officials said.

After Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father asked the embassy in Nigeria for help, embassy officials from several agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, met to discuss the case, officials said.

Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman, said that was the first time the agency had heard of the young Nigerian. “We did not have his name before then,” he said.

The embassy sent a cable to Washington, which resulted in Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name being entered in a database of 550,000 people with possible ties to terrorism. But he was not put on the much smaller no-fly list of 4,000 people or on a list of 14,000 people who are required to undergo additional screening before flying, nor was his multiple-entry visa to the United States revoked.

“It now appears that weeks ago this information was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect’s name on a no-fly list,” Mr. Obama said of the father’s warning. “There appears to be other deficiencies as well. Even without this one report, there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together.”

Mr. Obama’s appearance came after another day of Republican criticism. On Tuesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee sought to inject the bombing attempt into next year’s midterm races. In a series of news releases, the committee sought to press vulnerable Democrats on whether they agreed with Ms. Napolitano’s initial assessment.

“All year long, we’ve asked the question: What is the administration’s overarching【You use overarching to indicate that you are talking about something that includes or affects everything or everyone. (FORMAL)】 strategy to confront the terrorist threat and keep America safe?” Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, said in a statement Tuesday. “We haven’t gotten a satisfactory answer, and the secretary’s ‘the system worked’ response doesn’t inspire confidence.”

Democrats countered that Republicans had shown disregard for any terrorism risk by blocking the president’s nominee for head of the Transportation Security Administration and by voting this year against a measure providing $44 billion for Department of Homeland Security operations.

“They have essentially voted against and delayed providing the tools that are necessary to prevent these kinds of actions,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

They also criticized Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the senior Republican on the intelligence committee and a leading critic of the White House, for tying the thwarted bombing to an appeal for money for his race for governor. In a letter first reported by The Grand Rapids Press, Mr. Hoekstra sought donations to help counter Democratic “efforts to weaken our security.”

A spokesman for Mr. Hoekstra’s campaign said the letter was appropriate and sought to inform potential donors of his leadership on national security issues.

Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, said on Tuesday that once the Senate returned on Jan. 19, he would move quickly to overcome Republicans’ objections to the nomination of Erroll G. Southers, a former F.B.I. agent, to lead the security agency.

Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, has blocked the appointment, saying he was worried Mr. Southers might allow T.S.A. workers to join labor unions. “Republicans have decided to play politics with this nomination by blocking final confirmation,” Mr. Reid said.

Mr. DeMint said he was seeking an opportunity to debate the nomination rather than have it approved without discussion, and he accused Mr. Reid of grandstanding【Grandstanding means behaving in a way that makes people pay attention to you instead of thinking about more important matters. (mainly AM)】. “Senator Reid completely ignored this nominee until the recent terror attempt,” Mr. DeMint said, “and now he’s trying to show concern for airport security.”

My comment
The first I want to say is that so many subjunctive sentences are there in the report.

Additionally, I recall an issue topic of the GRE's analytical writing test, which is "Reform is seldom brought about by people who are concerned with their own reputation and social standings. Those who are really in earnest about reforming a government, and educational system, or any other institution must be willing to be viewed with disdain by the rest of the world", and referring to this report, Mr Obama is just the one who is earnest about overhauling the security system in order to fix the flaws in the system. He pointed out there are two deficiencies: one is the attempted bomber should have put on the no-fly list; the other is information could have and should have been pieced together even without the report of the suspect's father. But for Republicans, this is a great chance to accuse the administration of not taking terrorism seriously enough. They sought to inject the bombing attempt into next year's midterm races.

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哈哈，楼主新年快乐~

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.01]
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=1047217&highlight=


The Americas
Canada's northern goal
Nov 13th 2009
From The World in 2010 print edition
By Jeffrey Simpson, OTTAWA
The Arctic is no longer the forgotten frontier
1.Canada is a northern nation. “O Canada”, the national anthem【A national anthem is a nation's official song which is played or sung on public occasions.】, speaks of “true north, strong and free”. But for most Canadians, 80% of whom live within 200km (124 miles) of the United States border, the Far North (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut) is a vast area never visited, largely unknown, usually forgotten and populated only by aboriginal peoples with quaint【Something that is quaint is attractive because it is unusual and rather old-fashioned.】 customs. All that will start to change in 2010.

2.Pangnirtung, population 1,300, on the east coast of Baffin Island, a settlement mostly known for Inuit art and a nearby national park, will see construction start on a C$42m ($40.5m) harbour for the small Inuit fishing fleet. At Gjoa Haven, the only settlement on King William Island, cabins used by polar-bear【极地熊】 researchers will be upgraded. At Eureka, on Ellesmere Island, an atmospheric laboratory will be overhauled. At Iqaluit, capital of the Nunavut territory, tens of millions of dollars will be spent on badly needed housing, a research institute and a research vessel.

3. Add to that oil and gas exploration in the Beaufort Sea; C$100m for social housing; the same sum for geology research; another C$90m for economic-development projects; C$85m to improve Arctic research stations. The result is activity such as the Far North, from Alaska in the west to Baffin Bay in the east, has never before seen. And still to come—delayed by debilitating squabbles among Canada’s shipbuilders and the usual cost overruns of military projects—are three Arctic patrol【巡逻】 ships and a polar icebreaker, plus the publication of plans for a deep-water port at Nanisivik, on the north coast of Baffin Island. Later in the year, if all goes according to plan, the federal government【联邦政府】 will select a community that will get a High Arctic Research Station.

4. During the cold war, Canada and the United States constructed a Distant Early-Warning detection system against any attack by Soviet bombers. Apart from this DEW line, Canada paid little heed【If you take heed of what someone says or if you pay heed to them, you pay attention to them and consider carefully what they say. (FORMAL)】 militarily to the Far North. Soviet and American submarines roamed under the Arctic ice without Canada having any ability to monitor them. The Canadian government outfitted a few Inuit with baseball hats and rifles, called them Rangers, and forgot about the region.

5. Now, the rush【~ on/for sth sudden great demand for goods, etc （对货物等的）大量急需, 争购】 is on to discover the Far North, quite literally【毫不夸张地、即】
in the sense of research into atmosphere, ice and animals; and more urgently to get ready for the widening of sea lanes caused by global warming. Higher temperatures mean less sea ice and more scope for mineral【矿物】 and fossil-fuel【化石燃料】 exploration, more foreign ships traversing【横越】 the north, and potential conflicts with other Arctic states over the seabed, sea lanes, and sea and land borders.

6. The Arctic is full of unresolved border delineations. Canada and the United States disagree over the maritime boundary between Alaska and Yukon. Canada and Denmark have both planted flags on tiny Hans Island. Canada will continue working in 2010 to prepare its claim under a United Nations convention for underwater rights extending as far as the North Pole, a claim that will surely conflict with one already filed by Russia.

7. No country agrees with Canada’s contention that the Northwest Passage (there are actually two or three possible routes) belongs to Canada. The United States, Russia and the European Union all believe the passage constitutes an international strait. The trickiest【If you describe a task or problem as tricky, you mean that it is difficult to do or deal with.】 decision for Canada is whether to consider the United States as friend or rival in the Far North, a decision that has to come soon. Do the two countries co-operate in managing the sea lanes? Do they sort out【If you sort out a problem or the details of something, you do what is necessary to solve the problem or organize the details.】 their maritime border dispute? Do they support each other against Russia, or go their own ways?

8. Canada’s belated interest in its Far North is somewhat ironic given that climate change has hit the Far North harder than any other part of the Earth, and yet Canada’s record in curbing greenhouse-gas emissions is the worst in the G8. In the Kyoto climate-change protocol, Canada pledged to reduce emissions by 6% from 1990 levels by 2008-12; instead, emissions have risen by 27% and will rise again in 2010, especially if development intensifies in the tar sands of Alberta.

9. No matter who governs Canada in 2010—the country’s fractured【断裂的】 political system has thrown up【产生】 a series of unstable governments—all parties agree that the rush to research, develop and protect the Far North has become a national priority. The Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, made the Far North one of his signature issues after being elected in 2006. That the other parties now agree with this priority, without giving him any credit of course, means that the days of benign【无危险的】 neglect of the Far North are over.

My comment
I notice that in the last paragraph the government of Canada used the word of "benign" referring to their neglect of the Far North. In other words, they have realized if Canada should continue to neglect the Far North malign influence might be resulted in. Canada's belated interest in its Far North reveals that climate change has harmfully influenced this area. Moreover, many urgent problems should be considered and tactics be prepared. On the one hand, a series of project and construction is planning, which will promote the area's activity. On the other hand, the Canadian government outfitted a few Inuit with baseball hats and rifles attempting to enhance the military force in the Far North. As the Arctic is full of unresolved border delineations, Canada prepared a claim for underwater rights extending as far as the North Pole. It also must make a decision soon on the attitude towards sharing the Northwest Passage with the United States. In a word, tremendous changes seem to be about to happen on the vast area of the northern Canada.

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今天单词只草草看了L27，A题库到20

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单词 28-29
小组计划中要求共享的十个难背的单词：
parity
penitent
perpetual
pertain
petty
petulance
pittance
plangent
platitude
poignant
porcelain

A题库到第80题

今天因为改变了背单词的策略，打算试试杨鹏的25天的计划，因为海王泪说短期还是很见效的。于是决定每天两个list，背背看。所以今天在单词上花了不少时间，没有时间完成comment，记下来明天的硬性任务，必须写完：1月2日和3日的comment!

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先把今天的日志写了，一会儿安心去背单词。
虽然在计划上写的都是3，但是真是计划赶不上变化，这两天出的事情真是让我心情烦躁，没有多余的精力完成作业了。
昨天单词背了30，却没法上网更新日志和写comment。

避免再次无法上网的窘境，先把今天的comment搞定再说

[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.05]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1048748-1-1.html

My comment
Since business is changing its mind about it wants from MBA students during the two-year recession, the super-confident, gung-ho leader as their calling card was never in fashion. Mr Paul thinks the nature of leadership is sensitive to the situation and to managers themselves, while Mr Santiago thinks it will back to be more controls, the golden rules, and more supervision.

For Mr. Santiago, management is very much changed in demand these days. Business schools may have a role in preparing members of government and administration, and also be demanded for entrepreneurship courses. For the professors, affecting by the crisis, not only must they be solid in terms of their research skills and teaching skills, they should also be able to interface with the top management. The golden rules are still valid though, everything has evolved over time, and everyone needs an advanced study to update his knowledge. Moreover, the golden rules of what is good management and what is establishing the mission for a company should be recovered. He thinks business schools should train regulators because they need a very solid technical preparation in finance and in management that they lack in order to take better decisions.

On the contrary, Mr. Paul does not agree with the view that "everything has changed", at least most of the courses teached in his school have not changed because of the crisis. He thinks the change is not at the level of skill and knowledge but at the level of mindset, that is the responsibility and analysis capability to understand the complexity of the world. But these changes at higher level don’t change everything in finance. So what a manager needs is not the understanding of every eventuality but the right mindset and mental attitude about the models and how they worked and how they hooked up. Mr. Danos believes that the crisis was caused by the dynamics of interplay between big banks and the regulators, rather than by the business schools' historical failure in inculcating the right attitude in their students, and business schools can exert some leverage over regulators: a group of finance professors and economists from several schools is writing white papers on many aspects of regulation.

I do not know what kinds of courses are designed for the MBA student. But in my opinion, no matter what field we get into, finance or technology or philosophy, one of the most important elements of success is the sensitivity and adaptability to the situation changes. Thus, schools should offer courses not only in teaching skills and knowledge but also in establishing a right response to changes.

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[REBORN FROM THE ASHES][comment][01.06]
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1049212-1-1.html

Planet hunting
Looking in the shadows
Jan 5th 2010
From Economist.com
The search for a second Earth gets serious
IN THE 19th century astronomers spent a lot of time seeking shadows crossing the sun. They were searching for Vulcan, a putative planet inside the orbit of Mercury, by looking for its transits. These are the moments when, viewed from Earth, the hypothetical planet would cross the solar disc. Sadly, there was no Vulcan to be found, but the method itself is sound, and it is the modus operandi【A modus operandi is a particular way of doing something. (FORMAL)】 of Kepler, an American spacecraft that has been trailing the Earth, in the same orbit, since March 2009.

Kepler is a telescope that looks simultaneously and continuously at more than 150,000 stars, recording the amount of light coming from them. It is seeking the tiny, periodic diminutions【A diminution of something is its reduction in size, importance, or intensity. (FORMAL)】 of illumination caused by planetary transits【(astronomy 天) movement of one object in space (eg a planet) between another and an observer, so that the first seems to pass across the surface of the second 宇宙中一天体（如一行星）运行到另一天体与观察者之间, 使前者如同经过後者之表面】 and, on January 4th, the team running it announced that five such patterns had shown up in the first six weeks of the probe’s operation.

The past 15 years have shown that planets are commonplace. More than 400 have been located around stars other than the sun, by looking for the wobbles in parent stars that orbiting planets cause. A decent【Decent is used to describe something which is considered to be of an acceptable standard or quality.】 wobble, though, requires a massive planet, so the wobble method does not favour the discovery of Earth-sized objects. Kepler, however, can find such planets. The Earth itself, in transit, reduces the amount of light an observer would see from the sun by about 0.01%. That is well within Kepler’s range.

In fact, the planets found so far are significantly larger than Earth. Four are about the size of Jupiter and one about the size of Neptune. They also have much shorter orbits, ranging from 3.3 to 4.9 terrestrial days. Neither of these facts is surprising. Even using the transit method, big planets are easier to spot than small ones, and to be sure that a flicker in brightness is caused by a planet rather than some property of the star itself, it must occur at regular and predictable intervals. Hundreds of flickers that might have been caused by planets with longer orbits have been seen, but have not yet have been confirmed as transits.

What this does mean, though, is that the planets in question are are much closer to their stars than Earth is, and thus much hotter (1200-1650ºC), as well as being larger. But they are not as hot as the most peculiar【奇怪的】 discoveries Kepler has made. These are two planet-sized objects that are far hotter (at 12,000ºC) than their distances from their parent stars suggest they should be. That means they are giving out energy of their own, yet they are too small to be stars. One theory is that they are youngsters, giving off heat as they collapse inwards due to the pull of their own gravity, but nobody knows for sure.

None of these discoveries favours the underlying reason why planet-hunting is such a popular sport—the hope that, one day, a life-bearing planet will turn up. For that, more numbers will have to be crunched【To crunch numbers means to do a lot of calculations using a calculator or computer.】, and planetary atmospheres analysed for signs of oxygen. The hunt, however, is on in earnest【(idm 习语) in (dead/deadly/real) `earnest (a) with determination and energy 有决心和精力 (b) serious(ly); not joking(ly) 认真（地）;并非开玩笑（地）】. If Earth-sized planets are out there, they will soon be found.

My comment
The development of science always results in dispute, over the question that if the applications of research results would be unrealistic or unethical, such as to clone humans, or that if the researches, especially those whose consequences are unclear and those on science frontier, are necessary for the contemporary world. I think the topic of today's article would touch off an argument about either the former or the latter. The comments behind the article on Economist.com confirm my inference.

Moreover, I wonder why it is a "life-bearing" planet that planet-hunters are hoping for turning up. Obviously, the "life" refers to the form of life which is similar to the human race, for the space explorers seem in earnest to concentrate on analysing planetary atmospheres for signs of oxygen. Isn’t there other kind of life form in the universe? What is the purpose of our exploring the space? Is it just to prepare a backup to the exhausting Earth? If so, don't attempt once again to destroy another planet, man!

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单词list27
A题库到130
感觉每天完成基本作业时间都很紧迫，sigh……

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26# miki7cat

路过～喊一声加油！！

你很快呢··题库过那么多了。。
555～～我还在痛苦期末考～

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恩，过来看看mica，呵。。
你题库过的好快，相比之下，我就。。呃。。

↖(^ω^)↗呵。。

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单词26、30

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今天狂补之前落下的comment，有好几篇……本来都不想补了，但是Q拿着小皮鞭鞭策着我，于是终于追上进度了！！！因为某些原因，明天再贴上来。今天是特地感谢一下Q的，有小组成员互相监督，真好啊~~

因为补commet，没太多时间背单词，于是复习了一下之前的27/28
A题库到160